The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2021

The justices said Monday they will review a lower-court ruling that upheld New York’s restrictive gun permit law. The court’s action follows mass shootings in recent weeks in Indiana, Georgia, Colorado and California. The others are: California, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Writing for the six-justice majority, Chief Justice John Roberts cautioned that universities could not circumvent the court’s decision “through application essays or other means,” emphasizing that “‘what cannot be done directly cannot be done indirectly.’” The district court “reluctan[tly]” sent the case back to state court, and the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Share The Supreme Court will kick off its 2023-24 term on the traditional first Monday in October. The court’s October argument session will feature six arguments over five days, on topics ranging from federal sentencing laws to voting rights.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2021

Under federal law, cases filed in state court can be transferred – the technical term is “removed” – to federal court if they meet one of several criteria. In this case, Chevron removed the lawsuit to a federal district court in Maryland, pointing to eight different grounds for removal.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2021

In a speech at Harvard Law School in 2015, Justice Elena Kagan told the audience that “we’re all textualists now” – that is, that any effort to interpret a statute begins (and often ends) with the language of the statute. After the district court sent the case back to state court, the companies appealed to the U.S.

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Parasec

APRIL 4, 2024

Federal: Federal Court Rules CTA Unconstitutional On March 1, 2024, a federal court in Alabama ruled in National Small Business United (NSBU) v. The Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxations recently informed its customers about some changes that have been made to annual report filings.

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Broadcast Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

But that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for some trademark fun, looking at how law and trademarks can collide. And now, back to the law. The US District Court in Maryland disagreed, finding that the term “goods and services” included “political activities.” Register here today! One Sweet Campaign.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

1] He is also an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5]

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Sarah Palin (R) against the New York Times, a lawsuit that could have far reaching implications for defamation law in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Baltimore and Incinerator Operator Settled Lawsuit over Local Air Law. Hawaii Court Ruled that Commercial Aquarium Fishing Required Environmental Review.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. United States , No.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2022

published in the Brooklyn Law Review. Examine the court rulings and courtroom practices around VIS, and several practical questions arise, argues Bandes. The 1991 Supreme Court ruling in Payne v. Subsequent court decisions have muddied the legal waters on VIS. In Booth v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

The Supreme Court is hitting its stride in sorting through the relists. At its last conference, it granted review of a one-time relist asking whether federal courts must follow state law requiring medical malpractice claims to be supported by an expert affidavit. New Relists Escobar v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Judge Priscilla Richman wrote separately to say that although “there is undeniably a split among circuit courts” on this issue, Dubin’s actions came within the statute’s literal prohibition against “us[ing], without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person.”. relisted after the Sept. 14 conferences).

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The Crime Report

JULY 16, 2021

He blocked the exits to trap his victims and set decoys for law enforcement to slow their response, all of which attested to the fact that he was able to control his actions at the time of the shooting.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Adnan Syed murder case in Maryland illustrates systemic problems in the American criminal justice system. His automatic direct appeal was denied by the Appellate Court of Maryland in March 2003. After conducting a two-day evidentiary hearing, the trial court denied all nine claims for post-conviction relief in January 2014.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Fitisemanu and the Tulis argue that the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, embraced the founding-era common-law understanding of birthright citizenship. Maryland must establish that they were more likely than not prejudiced by the government’s suppression of favorable evidence; and (2) whether the judgment of the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Amgen argues that the Supreme Court has held that whether a patent satisfies the “enablement” requirement is a jury question, and argues that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has deviated from that by holding that enablement is a question of law that courts review without deference. 28 conference).

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2022

San Francisco Regional Director Jill Coffman declared that the company is violating the rights of workers in 10 different states (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Washington, Indiana, and California). In her consolidated complaint against Whole Foods Market, Inc.,

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2024

In 2015, the Supreme Court put Glossip’s execution (as well as those of two other men) on hold while it considered their challenge to the state’s lethal injection protocol. In doing so, he writes, the state court applied that law “essentially verbatim” in its opinion, without referring to federal law.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit applied a too exacting standard to his claim under Brady v. Maryland that he was prejudiced by the government’s suppression of favorable evidence. Shoop involves the argument of death-row prisoner Davel Chinn that the U.S. And Shoop v. Cunningham. relisted after the Sept. 28 conference).

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Some of us have repeatedly said that the lawsuit would not succeed despite various law professors filing a brief supporting the underlying claims. It quotes advocates for the rejected challenge and then adds this observation: “The ruling has little bearing on the ongoing fight for D.C. I have written about D.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

After a group of federal judges had recommended that an attorney who had represented her in other ADA cases be suspended from practicing law in Maryland because of repeated ethics violations, she explained, she had voluntarily dismissed her case in the district court and cannot refile it.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

The use of force in such a circumstance is justified under Indiana Code 35-41-3-3(b): A law enforcement officer is justified in using reasonable force if the officer reasonably believes that the force is necessary to effect a lawful arrest. ?However, Mercer then returned fire and killed him.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Natural Resources Defense Council , holding that courts should defer to a federal agency’s interpretation of the laws it administers if those laws are ambiguous. A state appeals court ruled that Anthony had not received a fair trial. Echoing his opinion earlier this year in Kennedy v. After the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2021

Fitzgerald , the Supreme Court ruled that “government officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”. In 1982, in Harlow v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 10, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday evening largely left in place an order by a federal judge in Maryland directing the government to return to the United States a Maryland man who is currently being held in a maximum-security prison in El Salvador as a result of what the Trump administration concedes was an administrative error.

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JURIST

APRIL 11, 2025

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the government met the requirements for a stay, including a likely success on the merits of its appeal, and that it would suffer irreparable harm if the stay is denied. Earlier this month, US District Judge James K.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 26, 2022

It is important to note that Republicans have also had courts rule against them in states like North Carolina and Pennsylvania). The court found that, in their 2021 Congressional Plan, the Democrats not only violated Maryland law but the state constitution’s equal protection, free speech and free elections clauses.

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Above The Law

APRIL 15, 2025

* Trump administration refusal to honor 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to facilitate the release from custody of a Maryland man mistakenly deported becomes gravest crisis for federal judiciary since the apocryphal “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it” moment. [ appeared first on Above the Law. .”

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 7, 2025

The court did not act on several requests for emergency relief, including in cases involving President Donald Trumps effort to end birthright citizenship and his administrations use of the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act, that are also pending at the court. The law also requires defendants to pay interest on the restitution.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2021

I regularly criticized Donald Trump for his calls to change defamation laws. On the opposing side, figures like MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough raised equally poor understandings of defamation law i n considering lawsuits against Trump. The Court in cases like New York Times v. to Roy Moore to Joy Reid. Phelps , 562 U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The court determined, moreover, that even if the plaintiffs’ claims could be construed as post-effective date claims (i.e., and non-U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

Share If the Supreme Court’s 2021-22 term had a soundtrack, it might be “With or Without You,” the 1987 anthem by the Irish rock group U2. The new balance of power on the court was on display before the term officially began, when the justices rejected a request to block enforcement of S.B. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

After Harvard, Kruger went to Yale Law School, where she was the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal – the first Black woman to hold that job. During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S. A stint in the Obama administration, including arguments at the Supreme Court. as “only jealousy.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Groff sued USPS in federal court under Title VII for refusing to accommodate his religious beliefs and practices. The trial court ruled for the Postal Service under Hardison , and the U.S. Kevin Younger, who was detained awaiting trial at a Maryland state facility, claimed that guards entered his cell and beat him.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2022

In 2017, Congress passed a tax law that allowed taxpayers to deduct from federal income taxation only up to $10,000 of state and local taxes. Then-President Donald Trump described the 2017 law as an “incentive” for taxpayers “to say, hey, make sure that your politicians do a good job of running your state.” New York v.

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